| CULVERT | • culvert n. A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water. • culvert v. To channel (a stream of water) through a culvert. • CULVERT v. to channel a stream through an arched construction or channel enclosing a drain or watercourse beneath a road, railway, etc. |
| ENVAULT | • envault v. (Transitive) To enclose in a vault; to entomb. • ENVAULT v. to enclose in a vault. |
| EVOLUTE | • evolute n. (Geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve. • evolute adj. (Malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface. • EVOLUTE v. to develop by evolution. |
| OUTLIVE | • outlive v. (Transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive. • outlive v. (Transitive) To live through or past (a given time). • outlive v. (Transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast. |
| OUTLOVE | • outlove v. (Transitive) To love more than somebody else. • OUTLOVE v. to surpass in loving. |
| OVULATE | • ovulate v. (Intransitive) To produce eggs or ova. • ovulate adj. (Botany) Containing, or bearing, an ovule. • OVULATE v. to produce ova. |
| RIVULET | • rivulet n. A small brook or stream; a streamlet; a gill. • rivulet n. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth. • RIVULET n. a small stream. |
| VALUATE | • valuate v. To estimate the value of something; to appraise or to make a valuation. • VALUATE v. to appraise, evaluate. |
| VAULTED | • vaulted v. Simple past tense and past participle of vault. • vaulted adj. (Architecture) Of a ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style. • VAULT v. to leap over, also VAUT, VAUTE, VAWTE. |
| VAULTER | • vaulter n. A person who vaults or leaps. • VAULTER n. one who vaults. |
| VELOUTE | • velouté n. (Cooking) A mother sauce in French cuisine, consisting of a light stock thickened with a blond roux. • VELOUTE n. (French) a kind of sauce prepared from a white stock of chicken etc. |
| VOLUTED | • voluted adj. Having a volute, or spiral scroll. • VOLUTED adj. having a volute. |
| VOLUTES | • volutes n. Plural of volute. • VOLUTE n. any marine shell of the genus Voluta or related genera, allied to the whelks. |
| VULGATE | • vulgate adj. (Archaic) Made common, published for common use, vulgarized. • vulgate adj. (Of a text, especially the Bible, not comparable) In or pertaining to the common version or edition. • vulgate n. The vernacular language of a people. |
| VULTURE | • vulture n. Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae. • vulture n. (Figurative, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others. • vulture v. (Figurative, colloquial) To circle around one’s target as if one were a vulture. |
| VULVATE | • vulvate adj. Relating to, or having the form of, a vulva. • VULVATE adj. shaped like a vulva, the external genital of a female animal. |